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Friday, March 28, 2014

Dreama Tolle Perry Workshop

I really loved this workshop. Dreama's painting have such vivid color and beautiful brushwork.

I took the workshop last April, but never included much from my notes. Here are the highlights of what I learned:

Paint the under painting in transparent oils using a medium
(the one I use is 1 part damar varnish, 2 parts stand oil or linseed oil, 3 parts gamsol)

You probably have most of the ones she recommended they
include:indian yellow, transparent red,
alizarin, magenta, ultramarine blue, Caribbean blue

Then the next layer, paint with only opaque's like the cad
colors, and white mixed into transparent. (Dreama used Shiva Ice Blue, too,) Don’t use medium in this layer, just fresh
paint.When you paint over the transparent
let the darks peek through.If you use a
light touch the paints mix into the underpainting, but if you really load up
your brush with lots of paint the brush strokes sit on top.

Use big brushes and think of you brushstrokes as putting
down confetti pieces of color.

It’s really a fun way of doing a painting.Sometimes I use all of her techniques, other
times just parts of it.

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